George H.W. Bush: “We both draw a blank when we hear about it.”

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

Bigotry seems emboldened.

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.